Dual Display

If i installed a second video card on my computer, would i have dual display? Would i have it displaying on two monitors the same thing? or would they work together like when you have a dual display video card? I have a pci vid card so i think im going ot try and do this...i wonder what'll happen...im excited

Originally posted by PHATMAN5050 O my God! i got it to work...its pretty cool but my old monitor makes my new one have htis little line that goes down which is kinda hard to see but i notice it when i look real hard.

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That gives you 2 choices:

1. Move the monitors further apart, as it is interference that is responsible for the line.

For more info about what is going on inside your CRT monitor, take a look here

there is another problem, for some reason i am unable to install the software that came with the second video card. It has a tv tuner on the card, and the software to watch the tv wont install. It says i have no hardware on my computer that the drivers can install to. Could it be because i have 2 ati cards and i already have the software from one of the cards instlled?

The two cards are
1. ATI Radeon 64mb DDR
2. ATI Rage 128 GL 16mb

I already have the software for the radeon installed, so should i try to uninstall it and then try and install the software for the rage?

yeah, i tried the primary and secondary adapter thing...there is a file that comes on ati cds calle atiinfo and when you open it it gives you all the information about your computer, video card type, audio card, ram, processor, motherboard, stuff like that, and it has the name of my video card in there...

since the ati rage card has a tv tuner, i want to be able to use the tuner from that card and watch tv on my computer. The only problem is that the program used to watch the tv called 'tv' opens up 'video in' which is a program that was used with my radeon card since it has video in instead of a tv tuner. How can i watch tv on my computer now?

since the ati rage card has a tv tuner, i want to be able to use the tuner from that card and watch tv on my computer. The only problem is that the program used to watch the tv called 'tv' opens up 'video in' which is a program that was used with my radeon card since it has video in instead of a tv tuner. How can i watch tv on my computer now?

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If you're not using the video in, just disable it/uninstall the it...

I'll see if I can find any instructions on how to do that either later today, or sometime tomorrow... (I'm going on holiday in 3 hours, so I doub't I'll have the answer by that...)

Originally posted by PHATMAN5050
the ati rage card has a tv tuner, i want to be able to use the tuner from that card and watch tv on my computer. The only problem is that the program used to watch the tv called 'tv' opens up 'video in' which is a program that was used with my radeon card since it has video in instead of a tv tuner. How can i watch tv on my computer now?

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Originally posted by MrGaribaldi
Read this, and set the tv card as primary...

According to ATI you need to set your videocard to primary for it work:

For features such as TV and capture to function, the display adapter with TV/Capture support, MUST be the PRIMARY.

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I had a lot of problems with Win-OS's with my video-in devices. I have a TV-tuner card, gfx card has video-in/out and a USB webcam which can be used as video-in device. I never got all three working together.

i think i've made a breakthrough. A while back when i was using JUST the rage card, and i would open up the TV program an error message would come up saying that 'an error occurred because either the drivers are incorrect or you need to close any program using the video like dvd or webtv.' When i had this error i was running win2k and on the ati site they said to go and dl the direct x video capture software. That fixed my problem before, but when i downloaded the capture software this time, it said that i am not running win98, win98 se, win2k, or winme so the installation cannot continue.